The sky is blue, and the clouds in the distant sky are rolling, as quiet as a painting, the clouds are three-dimensional and infinitely elevated, like a statue of a giant god, standing on the planet.

This is undoubtedly the excellent climate of the Imperial Capital Star, but people at this moment have no time to appreciate such beautiful scenery and climate. At this moment, at the other end of the galaxy in the distance, the war about the fate of the empire was like the sword of Damocles, hanging high above everyone's heads.

This is destined to be the beginning of the most difficult years.

The lower house member of the imperial capital Xinglitian District, the River Earl Castle, Earl Lin Wei, who returned from Junzheng Street, got out of the car and was taken over by the butler Donna Hai. The suitcase was full of imperial documents brought back for processing, including electronics and paper. The empire has entered a wartime state, and the cabinet and the House of Parliament have made every effort to start the war.

This is a major event about life and death, a crisis coming from the sky, and an absolute force that changes everything. Every fluctuation will constantly break up, reorganize and change the power structure of the empire.

In the past, various factions that had been crushing each other within the Congress changed their will without exception in the face of this war, from gaining political influence to spare no effort to devote their own strength to the war against Xipang. This transformation is reasonable. Whoever can contribute the greatest contribution to this war will naturally be correspondingly affected by repelling the common enemy.

To put it bluntly, this is a new round of battlefield.

Whoever can protect this empire is the greatest hero, whether it is the longest royal family, the round table nobles with different intentions, or the cabinet that works hard to create a new ecology... And now, Count Lin Wei is standing here, thinking about the information he has just obtained from the Junzheng Street today and the guidance of the war, I feel that a surging era is coming, and I actually have a feeling of standing on the sea cliff and looking at the tide at the tide.

The uncertainty of the situation in the Star Alliance world and the invasion of the Xipang people undoubtedly brought the greatest threat since the founding of the Great Eagle Empire. However, this is also the beginning of a new era. Only in the chaotic times can a large number of people with bright moons and morning stars emerge. This is a situation that the world has never experienced in the past thousand years. There is undoubtedly a magnificent feeling. The Count even felt lucky and proud of being born in such an era.

Think about the old Count Lin Lei, who was unyielding will tore open the iron curtain of the Lily Round Table family in a peaceful era. Lin Wei felt that it was hard to compare with his father. However, the arrival of this war gave him the opportunity to forge honor. Every nobleman has a dream of chasing glory and a strong country deep in his heart. Such a dream appeared in countless noble families that once protected the birth and rise of this empire.

It is just that the long-term peace and comfort of material conditions have corroded, which has made such dreams and beliefs dim, and their spears have been rusted because they have lost their tempering for too long.

Earl Lin Wei can see that this war is slowly awakening these long-standing things step by step. This is buried deep in the hearts of every imperial person. Every family has a place in the empire. The most fundamental belief is the era of true aristocracy, "sacrifice", "freedom", "piousness", "protecting the weak people and bravely fighting against the cruel enemies", "dignity", "glory", "dream" and other things that are now despised and once pursued by that glorious era.

It is being awakened because of the drastic changes in the outside world. Because of this era, if these things are needed, there is only one way to perish in this country!

Today's Lin family is very unusual compared to usual.

Lin Wei was welcomed by Donna Hai and was about to enter the castle lobby. Donna Hai held the door handle, the electronic sensing device started, and the retro-style high-carved copper door pushed open to the inside, like curtains, pushing the family members wearing various suits standing inside.

The solemn atmosphere came towards us.

The first one was Lin Jiang, Lin Yuanshan, Lin Nan, Lin Xiao, Lin An and other elders of the family pillars. Their various faces were eyes gathered on Lin Wei. Behind them were the descendants of three generations of blood, including Lin Wei, Lin Hao, Lin Delun, Lin Ke, and Lin Ken. They all wore formal clothes, soft tweed suits and silk-satin-like long skirts, outlining their figures in a tall and slender way. In such a dress and an environment where they gathered together, they could see their delicate and slightly tough eyebrows that were inherited from the blood of the Lin family.

Some people are already married, holding their beautiful and elegant partner, or relying on men who are also dressed in formal clothes and have a calm face.

"Lin Wei"

"Mr. Earl"

"Uncle Lin Wei"

Faced with Lin Wei's entry, everyone gathered together to give way.

Lin Wei nodded, looked around everyone, then turned around and asked Donnahai, "Where is Linhai?"

"He is in the secretary's room of the castle..."

"Well," Lin Wei nodded, and then took the lead in walking up the spiral stairs, "let him come to the third floor meeting hall."

Lin Wei walked up the stairs like a ceremony. All the members of the formal family behind him followed him. Under the dense and compact footsteps in the castle, the lobby gathered all the heavyweights of the family who had been waiting for the arrival of the head of the family for a long time and surrounded him towards the meeting hall on the third floor.

Under the guidance of Ang Lee, Lin Hai left to the meeting hall on the third floor of the castle.

The two stood at the door and paused for a moment.

Then Ang Lee pushed the door open slowly. He could clearly feel that everyone inside the door seemed to have their shoulders and backs straight invisibly.

Ang Lee felt his heartbeat move suddenly at this moment.

Lin Hai around him seemed to be ignorant. He thought how could this guy be so calm, how could this guy be so calm? In front of him were all the important figures of the River Star Earl family of the Xiayuan family, including the elders with the highest seniority in each room and the core of the board of directors. These people were ready and were wearing formal clothes as a whole, which was so majestic. But Ang Lee also knew that the guy beside him was also a monster, playing Formula Competition, killing the Speaker, Lin's camp was in danger, destroying the blacklist master... Even his sister became his right-hand man. What happened to this guy was indeed not something that ordinary people could bear, so in the face of this situation, it was probably a pediatrician.

The door was completely opened this time, and when they saw the gazes that were looking over, Ang Lee paused for a moment.

The forest sea enters.

"Lin Hai, come to my side." This was the earl's voice. He was in the middle.

With his mouth open, all the people in the core of the Lin family spontaneously retreated to the side, making way for a break.

Lin Hai stepped forward, and the eyes around him were always chasing him.

Ang Lee tried to see something from Lin Wei in a red dress. She looked at Lin Hai so quiet that she couldn't see anything.

Lin Hai stood beside the count. Looking around, he knew the status of these people in the family, and he also knew that they were the old orthodox nobles. In the empire, this is almost a representative of the true roots. All the nobles of the empire are like a huge database in their brains. No matter how remote and unpopular the noble families that are as vast as stars, as long as they report the name, they can immediately tell the origins of your family. The reason why the nobles are nobles is because they once had a glorious source and have been proud of them.

This is why Lin Hai's identity as an illegitimate child was highly despised in this world.

No matter which family you come from, the rules of the sacred nobles are the untouchable line. This is like the norm of the entire society. The nobleman, the illegitimate son of the duke with the highest tree-like hierarchy, will feel ashamed and unable to raise his head when facing the orthodox heirs of the earl family.

And now, Lin Hai came to Lin Wei's side, turned around, facing the entire family.

"Now...it can start." The count's face calmed down, with a complicated look and tone in his eyes, as if he was making a declaration of some kind of ritual.

Lin Wei stared at Lin Hai without blinking for a moment, and the depth of her red pupils was shining like a little girl, looking at a gray stone, peeling off the outer skin in front of her, revealing the crystal core inside.

"When Uncle Lin Lei was here, this guy was so domineering. He had been trying to replace him because of this because of his dislike, but he didn't expect that he still had to face his stinky fart today..." Lin Yuanshan showed a hint of self-deprecating at the corner of his mouth, but when facing Lin Hai, he looked solemnly, with a typical old-school arrogance, stroked his chest with his left hand and half bent his body. The slightly gray head, which was combed backwards very neatly, hung down.

"I, Lin Yuanshan, qualifies as the title of Lord Bordeaux, and swears in the name of the king who has given me glory—I express my most sincere apology and guilt for all the arrogant attacks I have put on my nephew Lin Hai, who has been blinded by prejudice."

His voice slightly, "I hope that the old guy who has lived in vain for most of his life will regret it too late."

The atmosphere became quiet at this moment.

Everything started to be silent.

Ang Lee, who was standing by, even though he knew something, was left with only open mouths at this moment. Lin Yuanshan, Lord Bordeaux, the elder of the family who made a living by stubbornness and paranoidness, once even wanted to deprive the head of the family and was the representative of the diehards in the family. But at this moment, he swears in the name of honor and serving the king, and apologizes to Lin Hai for the most harsh apology of the nobles.

Then, everyone saw that the corner of his mouth slashed and murmured, "It's really... I haven't performed that noble courtesy for a long time..."

Then he knelt down to the ground with his right knee. He half-kneeled towards Lin Hai, buried his head, and placed the cane he had been holding on the ground, and his hands were poking out and lit the ground. His posture made all of this have some old and solemn weight.

"I, Lord Bordeaux, since the death of the last loyalist, I am willing to be loyal to the new inheritor in front of me with all the life and will of the remaining life and will in my existence. I will follow him as a knight and love him as a servant. My destiny is closely related to you, and my sword is with you and your life and death."

The Ceremony of Allegiance This is the Ceremony of the Ancient Family Ceremony of Allegiance. The last time Lin Yuanshan gave this ceremony was decades ago, as a teenager, half-kneeled in front of Lin Lei, the head of the Lin family at that time.

This is an oath, a promise that orthodox aristocracy adheres to. As long as the person who is loyal to him is swearing, he becomes a part of it. A follower is the most primitive, but also the most effective means of controlling the family. If such etiquette is performed on loyalists, the betrayer will be despised by the entire aristocratic world, because this is the embodiment of the true aristocratic spirit, which is what has disappeared for a long time in the empire, but it is precisely because it is already rare that it is highly valued. Those who perform allegiance will only be lifted after the person who is loyal to him die.

After the death of Lin Lei, a family elder like Lin Yuanshan, never gave such a follower ceremony to a second person, even Lin Wei, the current head of the family, because it means promise and responsibility, and it means that the head of the family can no longer be deprived of it and cannot have any disagreement. This is the law of the nobles.

And now, after such an apology, this follower gift reappears.

Before Lin Yuanshan finished speaking, Lin Jiang, who was standing beside him, lowered his head and apologized, "As an elder of the family, he has repeatedly done many shameful tricks to you because of the faults of your father. Now when I think back, I am really ashamed of my ancestors who once bleed and sweated to this family, which has brought shame to the family!"

"When we slander and attack you, you endure the indifference and hostility imposed by all families, participate in the equations, fight against Ganarson, and at the most dangerous time of the family, you take on and fight against all the blows for the family regardless of the past rolling eyes and contempt."

"I, Lin Jiang, are not blind, and I can't see it. So after all this happened, I discovered my narrow-mindedness and what kind of face I used to be disgusting. When I woke up, I began to feel that my face was abominable, and I began to become afraid. Our prejudice and arrogance actually created what kind of monsters we have created."

"Yes, we are just a group of monsters that are weak and incompetent to the outside world. We want to bully them, for fear that you will take away the living space and resources. We are unable to fight against the outside world, so we can only shrink into each other's enemies. We were once close to our tribesmen, but we bite like mad dogs in order to get more material benefits and enjoyment... What turned us into this? What made us so cruel to our loved ones and family?"

"It is worldly, selfishness, human greed, our conscience gradually fades away"

Lin Jiang said, his face was slightly twisted and his eyes were red. His son Lin Delun wanted to come and help him, but he pushed him away.

"What's even more terrifying is that I just woke up now... If you hadn't appeared, we would have all fallen into the Abyss family, which would be full of holes and no longer exist. Maybe all of us would not have a good ending?"

"It's terrible. Even such a human heart is a mentality that I'm afraid it won't be able to reverse it in the end."

"Fortunately, in our family, you are the one who understands you have always been aware of us, and you have always watched our ridiculous performances. You have pity, helplessness, and even drunkenness, but you are ignored by our arrogance, and despised by our prejudice. What is ridiculous is us, and we are in vain. What is a huge mistake we have made?"

Dong Linjiang also knelt down on one knee.

He said, "Even if countless sorrys are not enough, I can't make up for my mistakes. There is no way, and my mood is difficult to calm down. There is only one possibility, that is, I, Lin Jiang, from then on, will be willing to use the rest of my life, everything about me, to follow and be loyal to your uncle and be loyal to your nephew. This is not a joke, but a pioneering process. One day in the future, people will remember our lost path, which is the dawn in the darkness at that time. May they forgive our past sins."

"I firmly believe that you will become the hope of the family! I, Sir Total, will follow and devote myself to you and my destiny for the rest of my life, and my sword will share life and death with you."

"Harmony and woe are related, life and death are shared"

Lin Nan, Lin Xiao, and the highest elders of the family, at this moment, they knelt down with Lin Hai and performed a loyalty ceremony.

This scene made all the descendants behind them take a step forward, move, or feel deeply shocked to help them, but they all stopped this subconscious behavior.

Then, Lin Delun knelt down with the jazz father's right knee, "I, Lin Delun, the third generation descendant of the Lin family on the Riverside Star, are willing to swear allegiance to Lin Hai in the name of the family's free will."

This time it was Link who also knelt down, "I, Link... swore allegiance to Lin Hai..."

Lin Hao knelt down, and Lin Ken half-kneeled down in turn...

The third generation of descendants knelt half-kneel.

Those who have a partner will bring their female or male companion, and at the same time, half-kneel and bow to one knee to courteously.

Only Lin Hai stood here. In his slightly trembling eyes, there were circles of people half kneeling down.

Then, at the end of his gaze, Lin Wei's graceful figure swayed lightly, which was a red skirt. She bent gently, the hem of the skirt drooped, her two slender legs arched, and knelt on her left knee, drowning her head towards Lin Hai.

"Lin Wei, I wish to be loyal to Lin Hai, my destiny is closely related to you. My long sword will share your life and death."

Lin Hai's pupils reflected Lin Wei's thin face, and her red look seemed to be burning.

When Lin Wei faced all this, he had a kind of blood flowing in the young man's body, burning pride.

This is his opportunity, and it is also the opportunity for the family. Because there is a son born to his bloodline. Although it is not orthodox, his future path will be so unlimited. Although he is the illegitimate son of himself and the woman who is in the beautiful star alliance, although he was not valued by the family at the beginning and was even rejected by the strict aristocratic laws of the empire, as the youngest recipient of the Bath Medal in the empire, he was also an officer who had experienced difficult trials in a place like the Royal Young Knights, who was promoted from a quasi-non-commissioned officer to at least the school as soon as he thought deeply, Lin Wei still had a sense of unreality that was difficult to believe.

But all this happened. Lin Wei's family houses that had doubts, even wavered their beliefs, and emerged from their hearts, Lin Yuanshan, Lin Jiang, and Lin Xiao, began to shed their arrogance and prejudice in the crisis saved by the family in the quagmire. In the process of witnessing sacrifice and rise, the ice deep in their hearts began to be shaken, smashed, melted, eliminated selfishness, and restored the sense of responsibility to unite the family as a unity.

The whole family is united like never before.

The Lin family's ability to enter the House of Commons is inseparable from Lin Hai's contribution. Lin Hai can achieve this, so what if he fights against the powerful round table nobles who were once afraid to offend because of their strict aristocrats?

It was at this moment.

Lin Wei and Lin Hai's eyes met.

Lin Wei thought that many years ago, he ignored some of the most important things for ridiculous dignity and honor.

Now, let me abandon the useless things like dignity, honor and disgrace, and be what a father should do, and add some codes for your worries...

The next moment, Lin Wei's body moved a small step back, as if he was about to brush away the dust in front of him. Then, he fell down and knelt on one knee.

"Lin Wei, the Earl of the Star on the River, in the name of free will... I swear... My life is related to your blood thicker than water, and our destiny is closely related... My long sword will fight for you... Until the end of life and death"
Chapter completed!